RE: Setup

[Martin S <chimbis bahnhof se>]

On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 02:09, eskil olsen sol dk wrote:
> yo syncboy...
> 
> >Is there instructions to get syncing to work in Gnome?
> >I can sync in KDE but the Gnome applications doesn't work at all. All
> >that happens is that my Visor times out claiming it couldn't establish
> >connection with the computer.
> 
> So what gnome do you have installed ? The stuff that came
> with redhat? recent versions from ftp.gnome.org or debian?
> or ximian via the updater ?


Ximian Gnome updated through Red-Carpet. Runs on Mandrake 8
 
> Because anyhoo, you first of need to have gnome-pilot 
> installed. You can find the latest version on 
> http://eskil.org/gnome-pilot/download/ but, if you don't
> have a pretty recent (as in not RedHat 6.2) gnome version,
> you'll want to upgrade other parts as well, like gnome-core,
> gnome-libs, gnome-vfs etc. (or you take the easy way, and
> cruise by www.ximian.com (the coders formerly known as
> helix) and get their gnome distro+their updater tool.
> 
> (optional kühl conduits are in gnome-pilot-conduits,
> and gnome-pim-conduits provides conduits for the 
> calendar and addressbook)
> 
> Once you have a gnome-pilot installed, click on the menu
> thingy, and under Applets/Tools, there should be a thingy
> called "PilotSync" (thats actually a bad name, I should 
> change that). Well, start this thingy, and it should
> fuck^H^H^H^Hpop up a druid that takes you through the
> steps.

I'm with you this far. Here I'm not getting any reaction at all.
Only the time out from my Visor.

 
> Btw, since you've got syncing working in KDE up and running
> I assume you're over the USB hurdle thing.
> 
> /dev/too-much-coffee

Yes. Syncing with JPilot works nicely.

Martin S